missing item
Gone from inventory
A missing item is something that should be present but isn't—lost, misplaced, or unaccounted for.
The phrase appears in inventories, police reports, and everyday complaints: There are three missing items from the shipment.
In software and games, a missing item is often a collectible or component the user needs to find or recover.
- lostUnable to navigate
- lost and foundStation for reclaiming mislaid belongings
- absentNot in attendance
- goneNo longer present
- vanishedDisappeared from sight
disappeared · without a trace · missing person · last seen · searching · puzzle · puzzle piece · clue · gap · void · hole · inventory · detective · cold case · misplaced · forgotten · stolen · empty
- logistics problemsshipping delay, late delivery, lost shipment, delayed delivery, supply shortage
- edge casesedge cases, special case, off-by-one, overflow, underflow